Last Tuesday, at a House study committee meeting addressing the barriers that HIV-positive people face, Betty Price – a doctor and wife of disgraced former HHS Secretary Tom Price – asked a state health official if people with HIV could be quarantined. The news of her barbaric comments broke thanks to Better Georgia writer Regina… [Read More]

An abrupt move by the White House has put the health of hundreds of thousands of Georgians on the line. Trump is using the move to single-handedly dismantle Obamacare, and pressure Senate Democrats into voting on a new health care “compromise” bill. Trump unilaterally decided to cut the payments to insurers that lower the cost… [Read More]

Food stamp policy is going to change, and not for the better. Enter Georgia’s own Sonny Perdue, who serves as the Secretary of Agriculture under the Trump administration. He has been panning the food stamps program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), all year. There’s been a push — both in this… [Read More]

Republicans in the House this week passed a medically unnecessary abortion restriction, setting an arbitrary time constraint on when a pregnant person can get an abortion. And guess who led the way? None other than the newly elected Karen Handel. Rep. Handel, who has years of experience promoting anti-choice policies, took to the floor of… [Read More]

Tom Price resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Friday. But let’s not get the story twisted. Price did not resign because, under his leadership, his Department sought to decimate Obamacare, strip transgender people of basic protections in the healthcare system, and make access to contraception and abortion even harder for women. His… [Read More]

Senate Republicans are resurrecting a last ditch effort to kill Obamacare in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill. Thanks to intense public pressure, a few Senate Republican holdouts are joining with Democrats to oppose the measure, but it will take continued public pressure to keep the measure at bay. Abortion care is a top target… [Read More]

(Warning: Some of the links used open articles that feature the graphic video of Scout Schultz’s shooting.) I met Scout Schultz at Parkview High School about six years ago. I was just learning about atheism and agnosticism, and I was eager to connect with other students who wanted to talk about these topics too. I… [Read More]

Nelson Francisco Perdomo-Vaidez’s left arm gives him such intense pins-and-needles pain that he can’t sleep, and it swells and turns purple if it isn’t kept elevated. At least two doctors agree that he needs to see a specialist or he will face serious risks of complications — including losing functionality in his hand and arm…. [Read More]

Publications often turn towards the West Coast or the Northeast to highlight progressive successes, but Georgia’s own Access Reproductive Care Southeast was recently featured in Marie Claire. In a moving piece, What Happens When You Can’t Afford an Abortion?, the author highlights the barriers many low-income pregnant folks face when trying to get an abortion… [Read More]

Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation that would expand Medicare into a universal health insurance program. At least 15 Democratic senators are backing the Sanders’s Medicare for All Act of 2017 – that’s one-third of the Senate Democratic Caucus and includes just about every Democrat seriously considering a presidential run in 2020. “This is… [Read More]